23.UIA Congress in Torino, Italy- exhibition ( June30th, 2008- July 3^rd, 2008 )  and the session ( July 1^st, 2008 )   of the UIA WP Spiritual Places at the Lingotto Center.

The  spirituality in the space of the city in  the 21^st  century  is realized  both by secular and sacral  objects.  Once reserved  to be present in  the religious structures only , it is now being sort of dispersed in the places of memory, places of cult of the heroes and their deeds  , mausoleums, monuments of the victims of international terror  and,  finally the    sacral buildings of different religions . This  has been noticed and is  described by different cultural researchers. There are different approaches  to the overall problem : from  the Christian Theology of the Built Environment  to the theories of Secular sacrum  .It is not the role of the architects to decide which approach is  the closest to the truth .Without much risk of falling into a scientific falsehood  we can say,  nevertheless ,   that all the spiritual spaces , both  religious and secular ,  are built around the existential problems which are common to all people . They deal with the problems of life, love, suffering and death . Problems are common but emotions and the ways of expressing them  vary  between cultures, creeds, nations .

1. General report from the Seminar in St Jean du Gard ? Mialet ? Anduze , France, prepared by arch. Zygmund Knyszewski , French delegate in UIA WP Spiritual Places .
2. Report from the meeting prepared by director of UIA WP arch. Ewa Kuryłowicz.